[COM] Victoria Square Upgrade - $24m

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#166 Post by Ben » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:50 am

Howie wrote:Definately another 100m... i've added that as a comment on the story
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/comm ... 01,00.html

Hopefully if enough people make the same suggestion it would be heard.
I hear what your saying...I'm off to do the same.

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#167 Post by Pants » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:57 am

I hope they've re-designed it and we're not dealing with a 1992 proposal.

Whilst I'm not usually caught up on height if a proposal's otherwise good architecturally, I agree with Pikey and Beamer, if this is to be a landmark, it needs to at least be taller than Santos, but future-proofing it to 170-200m would be the best way to go.

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#168 Post by Cruise » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:01 pm

Render?

and yes 97m is to small

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#169 Post by Ben » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:10 pm

Hope this is not too off topic and perhaps should be in the visions thread... sorry but

I'd love to see something like this:

Freedom tower NYC:

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#170 Post by Pants » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:18 pm

Howie wrote:Definately another 100m... i've added that as a comment on the story
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/comm ... 01,00.html

Hopefully if enough people make the same suggestion it would be heard.
Done.

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#171 Post by Norman » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:28 pm

Same here :P

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#172 Post by duke » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:38 pm

And me.

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#173 Post by Pants » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:43 pm

normangerman wrote:Same here :P
lol @ "State Government FTW!".

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#174 Post by Shuz » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:49 pm

The site isn't working for me :(

I'm just going to save my comment here for the moment, and then when its working again I'll just paste it across.

What a bold proposal! FInally someone with the guts to deliver something of landmark signifance to Adelaide. I reckon we should go the whole way and beat Q1 for Australia's tallest tower (323m+). Adelaide could have something to be proud of with that fact, that defines us as a city and not a oversized country town.
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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#175 Post by Ben » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:54 pm

Pants wrote:
normangerman wrote:Same here :P
lol @ "State Government FTW!".
Saw that.. I am a bit slow today (My excuse anyway) what is FTW?

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#176 Post by Pikey » Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:58 pm

"For the win"
Walking on over....

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#177 Post by Pants » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:13 pm

Pikey wrote:"For the win"
Ah, well that makes more sense in this context.

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[COM] Re: #Proposal: 97m Victoria Square Tower

#178 Post by Pistol » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:48 pm

Made my comment as well...
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#179 Post by Shuz » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:52 pm

Made my comment and I did a quick copy & paste job of the idea.

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#180 Post by Howie » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:58 pm

I'm curious as to how the carpark payback for the developer works... can someone elaborate for us and why a developer would go for an idea like this? Sounds like they need to do a bit of a hard sell... perhaps we could invite Michael Thiele to this thread to help explain it to us. Anyone have an email address for him?

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